Shoe-beating machine.



J. HOUSHOLDER.

SHOE BEATING MACHINE.

APPLIOATION FILED 00T.26, 190s.

Patented June 25,, 1912.

coLUMBIA mNoanAr-n co JACK HOUSHOIJDER, OF OOLIDWATER, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR 'I'O UNITED SHOE MACHINERY COMPANY, OF IATERSON,

NEW JERSEY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF SI-IOE-IBEATING 'lVLACI-IINE.

Patented June 25, 1912.

Application filed October 26, 1908. Serial No. 459,531.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J AOK Hoosnononn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Goldwater, in the county of Branch and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shoe- Beating Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to shoe beating machines and is herein shown for the purpose of illustration as embodied in a machine of the type shown and described in the patent to Samuel J. Wentworth, No. 896,873, of August 25th, 1908.

An important feature of the invention consists in the combination with a rotary shoe beater, such for example as one of the type shown in said Letters-Patent, of a toe support arranged to permit the operator to fulcrum the shoe thereon and, by depression of the heel, rock the bottom of the toe forcefully upwardly against the revolving beater. By this combination a powerful beating and leveling action on the toe portion of a lasted McKay shoe can be obtained to compact and smooth the lasted-over upper materials without the fatiguing exertion on the part of the operator which has heretofore been required. This combination in which the operator governs the pressure by moving the shoe with his hands has the advantage over a treadle raised shoe rest that the action of the beater on the shoe can be regulated with much more facility through the hands than through a foot treadle and connections.

A further feature of this invention is found in the relative arrangement of the rotary beater and a shoe rest which is movable as by tipping or sliding in a direction, relatively to the periphery of the heater, to carry the shoe along under the beater to treat the toe progressively from the end rearwardly as above described. .While the greater part of the beating operation is to be done on a small area near the end of the toe where the fullness left by the lasting operation is greatest it is desirable to advance the toe under the roll and beat the upper from the end of the toe backwardly progressively. The beater roll referred to is particularly adapted for this use because the beating elements are formed and arranged to act obliquely inwardly from the opposite edges toward the middle of the s oe.

In the illustrated embodiment of the invention the toe rest is pivoted in such relation to the rotary beater that it swings toward the beater to carry the toe into position to be treated and can swing farther to carry the toe along under the heater. for

progressive treatment of the bottom. The

arrangement of the toe rest to permit the pressure of the shoe against the heater to be regulated by fulcruming the shoe enables the operator to maintain the pressure, or to give the required varying pressure with great facility as the rest is tipped toward the beater and the shoe thereby advanced under the beater. A spring under the rest renders the fulcrum normally yielding to prevent too severe action on the shoe. For treating an especially. difiioult piece of work, however, downward pressure on the heel of the shoe may be sufficient to cause the fulcrum rest to be depressed until it comes to a firm bearing after which the toe portion of the shoe will be unyieldingly upheld against the beater.

These and other features of the invention will be more fully understood from the following description of the embodiment of the invention which is illustrated in the drawlngs. 4

The features of the invention are more fully set forth in the description of the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of my device in its relation to the rotary beating tool of the machine. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section through the rest and shows diagrammatically an operative relation of a shoe fulcrumed thereon and pressed against the beater.

'1 represents the forming tool which is a rotary wheel having spring actuated boaters, adapted to strike a series of blows toward the medial line of a lasted upper.

2 represents the table.

3 is the bracket attached to the edges of bracket arms is pivotally supported arm 5, which is of sleeve form..

6 represents thestem secured in the sleeve.

7 represents" a coil springstirroimding' the stem and resting against the shoulder 8 within the sleeve. 9 isa screw, engaging the. boss 1Q on the inner 'end" ofthestemend" thus retaining the stem in position and at the same time I permitting of rotatable and longitudinal movement *of the stem,- the longitudinal;

' bination, a rotary beating toolzand fmeaiis movement being spring actuated,

11 representsa padded rest on the outer end of the stem, having a concave face for the reception of the last upon which the upper is -secured;

- By means of this device the last can be moved t'oand from the wheel and turned .at any angle or applied with any pressure desired by the operator, the different 'charac ters of work and different conditions of.

work rendering desirable such selective presentation;

In "the use of the machine above described the toe-rest 11 is swung toward the operator and away from therotary beater to permit the'shoeto be properly positioned with its toe portion upon the rest." The 'r'e'st is then swung with and by the shoe backwardly to ward thebea'ter to introduce the toe *of the shoe under the beater and between it and the rest, it being understood that the beater turns forwardly and upwardly as indicated by the arrow thereon inFigrl. 'As the over-lasted upper material on the bottomface of the shoe is engaged by the beater the shoe is fulcrumed upon-the rest by downward pressureupon the heel portion ofthe shoe'to force the toe portion being beaten into firm contact with thebeaterq Bythus fulcruming the shoe the operator is enabled to hold the work hard against the beater with comparatively slight exertion and to vary the pressure according to the requirements of the i work as he watches the operation; 'By turning the rest farther backwardly the shoe is' advanced under the beater to causesucce s sive portions of the shoe bottom tobe treated by the beater and the pressure with which different portions are beaten can be 'varied at the willof the operator. The construe tion and arrangement of the beating elements of the rotary beater are such as to cause the lasted upper on the shoe bottom to be worked inwardly on opposite sides of the shoe.simultaneously." The spring 7 allows the rest to yield and thereby preventsjexcessive pressure being exerted at any time; It is to be noted that the' relation'of the pivot for the toe rest and the axis of rotation for the heater is such that as the shoe an d the beater. As thus presented, the porheater wi1r 'be'siibstaiiti'ally wages "theportion of the beatenw hfwhi H y tacts and as the shoe is farther advanced it can be rocked upon the toe rest to maintain on the rest is introduced under the beater,

as above described, it is wedged between the rest and, the beater cryintroduced intp the .g ,e hf t s farmed bvtl fena hsTdf h rr t tion ofvthe shoe bottom engaged, by the tia'l 'with it coneach portion being beaten 1n substantially that relation to the face of the beater.

Having "described" my vinvention, I

claim 1. A shoe beating machine having, in comfor turning it forwardly and upwardly, and a toe rest mounted for movement relatively to the beater tocarry' thetoe of the shoe" under the beater, said rest and associated: parts being constructed and arranged to per unit the shoe to be fulcrumedon the restito control the pressure as the shoe is advanced to present different portions of :the toe bot; tom successivelyto the action of the beater. 2. A shoe beating machine having, in c'om bination, a rotary beating tool and means for turning it forwardly aiid upwardly, and a toe rest pivot-ally supported in front of and'below the beaterfor swinging movement to carry the toe of the shoe under the beater, said rest'being formed and arranged} to permit the operator/to fulcrum the shoe thereon for maintaining the bottom of the shoe substantially tangential to the portion of the beater engagingit as the shoe is advanced under thebeater. i 3. A shoe beating machine having, in combination, a rotary beater, means renaming it"forwardly and upwardly, and a toe rst-: pivoted below and ,in front of the beater," the axis of revolution of the beater and the pivot of the rest being so related that'the toe portion of a shoe carried on and moving backwardly-with the rest will be wedged between the rest and beater' with the engaged portion of the bottom substantially tangentialto'the beater. T V 4:. A shoe beating machine having, in combination, a rotary circumferential beater' having beating members inclinedforwardly and inwardly" from opposite ends to work the'upper inwardly from opposite. sides of the shoe bottom, and a toe rest pivoted in" front of and below the beater 'to swing backwardly with theshoe thereon under the beater arrangedto permit the' 'shoeto be fulcrumed" on the rest to control, upward pressure'fthereof against the'beater as the shoe is advanced tojsubject'different longi tudinal portions of the shoe bottomsucces sively'to thje' action'ofthe beater. 5. A shoe beating machine having, in combinationfa rotary beating tool and? means for turning it forwardly "and upwardly, a" 11 toe rest arranged relatively to the beater to fulcrum rest rigid after a limited depression permit the toe of the shoe to be inserted thereof. 10 under the beater and the shoe to be ful- In testimony whereof, I have hereunto orumed on the rest to force the bottom of the set my hand.

toe against the revolving beater, a support JACK HOUSHOLDER.

for the rest, and a spring arranged to ren- Witnesses:

der the said fulcrum rest yielding, said ma- H. H. J ma,

chine having provision for rendering the OMAR C. EBENHACK.

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